Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Wood, William "Bill" P. Sr. February 11, 1948
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Belding Banner-News Thurs.February 12, 1948

          "Bill" Wood Dies Enroute South With Wife-Friends

Heart Ailment Strikes Well Known Merchant In Louisville, KY.

Word was received here late Wednesday evening of the tragic death of William 
P.Wood, Sr. at about 7 p.m. in Louisville, KY.

The Wood had left this city Wednesday morning, enroute to Florida with Mr. and 
Mrs.Glenn E.Wortley and had stopped at Louisville for the night. the two couples 
had been to a restaurant for the evening meal and Bill was stricken with what 
was thought to be a heart attack as they were leaving the restaurant.

An ambulance was called and doctors reported the esteemed Belding clothing 
merchant dead on arrival at the hospital. Mr.Wood was one of the oldest 
merchants on Main Street, in point of service, and his genial spirit will be 
greatly missed by his fellow merchants and the thousand of people in this are 
who looked to him when buying clothes.

The body is expected to arrive in Grand Rapids Friday where it will be met by 
T.Victor Ellis, of the Ellis Funeral Home, who will have charge of the service. 
The time of the service will await the arrival of Mrs.Wood and the Wortleys 
today.

Mr.Wood is survived by his widow,Nellie; two sons, Robert and William Jr., and a 
brother, Frank, of Detroit.

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